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Literary Devices Review #1
Literary Devices Review #1
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First round of literary devices from our study of Shakespeare and poetry! :)
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"I'll be your gravity; you be my oxygen." --BMTH
metaphor
foreshadowing
simile
oxymoron
2
"The red leaves danced in the autumn wind."
metaphor
personification
simile
hyperbole
3
When a character remembers something back in time
dramatic irony
flashback
flashforward
foreshadowing
4
"Where will the wind blow my sails?"
onomatopoeia
hyperbole
alliteration
simile
5
Giving human-like traits to nonhuman objects.
onomatopoeia
personification
hyperbole
metaphor
6
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
simile
alliteration
onomatopoeia
metaphor
7
Romeo: "O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!"
simile
foreshadowing
onomatopoeia
imagery
8
Occurs when the audience knows something that the characters don’t.
dramatic irony
pathos
allusion
analogy
9
A comparison between two unlike things without using like or as.
alliteration
metaphor
allusion
simile
10
"I feel like a million bucks!"
metaphor
simile
alliteration
hyperbole
11
A line of of rhythm in poetry with five iambs put together
iambic trimeter
iambic duometer
iambic pentameter
12
"I wandered lonely as a cloud."
metaphor
alliteration
onomatopoeia
simile
13
"I thought Santa was going to be late, but he arrived in the Nick of time."
personification
hyperbole
sonnet
pun
14
A play on words; a word or phrase with a double meaning.
simile
pun
monologue
oxymoron
15
A figure of speech with two opposites joined together for dramatic effect
metaphor
oxymoron
dramatic irony
soliloquy
16
A line said by a character to himself while other characters are on stage.
monologue
prologue
soliloquy
aside
17
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
personification
metaphor
onomatopoeia
hyperbole
18
A poem made up of fourteen lines with a particular rhyme scheme.
lyrical poem
sonnet
prologue
iambic pentameter
19
A speech made by one character to another character.
soliloquy
aside
monologue
prologue
20
When an author drops hints about what will happen in the future
pun
flashback
foreshadowing
hyperbole
21
A separate introduction to a literary work.
soliloquy
monologue
prologue
aside
22
The occurrence of the same letter/sound at the beginning of closely connected words.
metaphor
analogy
alliteration
allusion
23
The attitude an author has towards a particular subject.
tone
mood
hyperbole
allusion
24
When a character imagines something in the future
flashback
flashforward
dramatic irony
foreshadowing
25
A similarity between like features of two things where a comparison is made.
allusion
alliteration
analogy
aside
26
The feeling or atmosphere of a story
pathos
tone
pun
mood
27
The
Cossack
was the
cat
; he was the mouse.
Then
...
Rainsford knew the full meaning of terror
.
metaphor
simile
flashback
personification
28
An exaggeration for shock or dramatic effect.
onomatopoeia
pun
hyperbole
alliteration
29
"What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East and Juliet is the sun."
simile
hyperbole
personification
metaphor
30
An indirect or passing reference of another person, event, culture or work in literature.
alliteration
prologue
allusion
analogy
31
Words that appeal to the five senses
hyperbole
metaphor
imagery
pun
32
A speech made by a character alone to reveal his or her innermost thoughts.
monologue
soliloquy
prologue
aside
33
"Being struck by lightning is really a shocking experience!"
metaphor
alliteration
personification
pun
34
A Greek word for the feelings (sadness, pity, fear) you get at the end of a tragedy.
logos
ethos
pathos
tragic flaw
35
A character who makes a judgment error that inevitably leads to his/her own destruction.
tragic flaw
tragedy
protagonist
tragic hero
36
A sound word such as "BANG" "SCREECH" "FIZZ"
alliteration
onomatopoeia
metaphor
pathos
37
A trait in a character leading to his downfall.
tragic flaw
tragic hero
pathos
dramatic irony
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A comparison between two things that uses like or as.
metaphor
simile
analogy
alliteration
